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First Record of the Arrowback Tree Snake, Boiga Gocool HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 27(3):436–437189 • DEC 2020 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FirstFEATURE Record ARTICLES of the Arrowback Tree Snake, . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: Boiga Ongocool the Road to Understanding (Gray the Ecology and Conservation1835) of the Midwest’s (Reptilia: Giant Serpent ...................... Joshua Squamata: M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: Colubridae),A Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................ from Uttar Pradesh,Robert W. Henderson India 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES Girish. The Texas Choure Horned Lizard1, Prateek in Central Kashyap and Western 2Texas, Shubham ....................... Adhikari Emily Henry,3, Jason and Brewer, Hmar Krista Tlawmte Mougey, and GadLalremsanga Perry 204 4 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida 1 Indian Wildlife ............................................. Rescue and Research BrianAssociation J. Camposano, (IRRA), Kenneth SR No. L. Krysko, 53/58, Kevin Sainath M. Enge, Nagar, Ellen Vadgoan M. Donlan, Sheri, and MichaelPune-411014, Granatosky Maharashtra, 212 India 260 Company Bagh, Tharvaranganj-262701, Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, India 3S.NoCONSERVATION 74/2 NR, Shubam Mangal ALERT Karyalaya, Opposite to Play and Learn School Lane No-6, Road No.10, Sant Nagar Wagholi Road, Lohegaon, Pune-411047, Maharashtra, India . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 4 Developmental. BiologyMore Than and Mammals Herpetology ............................................................................................................................... Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Mizoram University, Aizawl-796004,....................................... Mizoram, India 223 ([email protected]) . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 HUSBANDRY he colubrid genus. Captive Boiga Care of Fitzinger, the Central Netted 1826 Dragon is currently ....................................................................................................... com- At 1107 h on 14 July Shannon 2020, Plummer Mr Amitosh 226 Jaiswal captured Tprised of 35PROFILE species (Uetz et al. 2020; Giri et al. 2019). a snake after one of his gardeners was bitten on the hand while Aengals et al. (2018). Kraig reported Adler: A Lifetime 16 species Promoting from Herpetology India, ................................................................................................ of which watering a flower pot in the Michael Tiger L. Treglia Rhino 234 Resort (Fig. 1) at Palia Boiga trigonata and Boiga forsteni are known to occur in Uttar Kalan adjacent to the Chaman Chouraha Road near Dudhwa COMMENTARY Pradesh (Kanaujia et al. 2017). The Arrowback Tree Snake, Boiga . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ........................................................................................................................ Eric Gangloff 238 gocool is endemic to southern Asia and known with certainty from India, Bhutan, andBOOK Bangladesh REVIEW (Wallach et al. 2014; Das 2016), with the center of .radiationThreatened Amphibiansin Assam of andthe World outer edited distributional by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young .............................................................................................................. Robert Powell 243 records in Darjeeling (West Bengal) to the west, Sadiya (Assam) to the north, Manipur CONSERVATION to the east, and RESEARCH Jessore REPORTS:(Bangladesh) Summaries to the of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 south (Das et al. 2010).NATURAL In eastern HISTORY India, RESEARCH the species REPORTS was :thought Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 to occur largely in NEWBRIEFSthe plains and ............................................................................................................................... low hills north and south of the ....................................................... 248 EDITORIAL INFORMATION ..................................................................................................................................................... 251 Brahmaputra Valley FOCUS (Das ON et CONSERVATIONal. 2010). Recently,: A Project Mohalik You Can et Support al. ............................................................................................... 252 (2020) reported the occurrence of the species in Odisha and their updated distributional map included Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, and West Bengal, excluding Mizoram, although LalremsangaFront Cover. Shannon and Plummer.Lalronunga Fig. Back1. Collection Cover. Michael site ofKern a juvenile Arrowback Tree Snake (Boiga gocool) (2017) had recorded the species in Mizoram.Totat et velleseque audant mo atTotat Palia et Kalan, velleseque Lakhimpur audant mo Kheri District, Uttar Pradesh, India. estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum fugiatis maionsequat eumque fugiatis maionsequat eumque moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. Fig. 2. A juvenile Arrowback Tree Snake (Boiga gocool) collected at Palia Kalan, Lakhimpur Kheri District, Uttar Pradesh, India. Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 436 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. CHOURE ET AL. REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 27(3):436–437 • DEC 2020 Fig. 3. An updated range map of the Arrowback Tree Snake (Boiga gocool) showing previously known localities (yellow dots) in India and Bangladesh, including the southernmost record from Dagara, Odisha (orange dot) (Mohalik et al. 2020). The new record from Palia Kalan, Uttar Pradesh, India, reported herein is indicated by a red dot and recent records from Umiam, Meghalaya, and West Phaileng, Mizoram, by blue dots. National Park, Lakhimpur Kheri District, Uttar Pradesh, India Maharashtra, India, for their constant support and provid- (28°46'77.78"N, 80°62'26.55"E; 190 m asl). This site is about ing literature for this study. 180 km north of Lucknow, the state capital, and 700 km west of the nearest previously recorded locality for the species in Jaipalguri District, Assam. The snake was examined and iden- Literature Cited tified as a juvenile Boiga gocool measuring 25 cm in total length Aengals, R., K.V.M. Satish, M.J. Palot, S.R. Ganesh. 2018. A Checklist of Reptiles of (Fig. 2). The snake was released into nearby forest. India. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, India. Das, A. 2016. Addition to the herpetofauna of Royal Manas National Park, Bhutan, Although we cannot rule out the possibility that this with six new country records. Herpetology Notes 9: 261–278. snake arrived at the site through human mediation, we believe Das, A., P.P. Mohapatra, J. Purkayastha, S. Sengupta, S.K. Dutta, M.F. Ahmedand, that this first record of the species from the state of Uttar and F. Tillack. 2010. A contribution to Boiga gocool (Gray, 1835) (Reptilia: Pradesh is the westernmost record for this species (Fig. 3). If Squamata: Colubridae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 17: 161–178. Giri, V.B., V. Deepak, A. Captain, S. Pawar, and F. Tilak. 2019. A new species of true, the range extension from West Bengal to Uttar Pradesh Boiga Fitzinger, 1826 (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the northern Western suggests that Boiga gocool might also occur in the interven- Ghats of India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 116: 1–11. ing areas of Bihar and Nepal. The updated range map of Kanaujia, A., A. Kumar, and A. Kumar. 2017. Herpetofauna of Uttar Pradesh, India. Biological Forum – An International Journal 9: 118–130. Boiga gocool provided herein also includes new records in Lalremsanga, H.T. and S. Lalronunga. 2017. Mizoram Rul Chanchin. Biodiversity Umiam, Meghalaya (based on photographs by Col. Yash and Nature Conservation Network (BIOCONE) and Mizoram Science, Singh) and West Phaileng near the Dampa Tiger Reserve, Technology & Innovation Council (MISTIC), Aizawl, Mizoram, India. Mamit District, Mizoram (photograph by Vanlalhrima) Mohalik, R.K., P.P. Mohapatra, P. Mardaraj, S. Sahoo, A.K. Bhilala, N.B. Kar, and S.K. Dutta. 2020. First record of Boiga gocool (Gray, 1835) (Reptilia: (Lalremsanga and Lalronunga 2017). Squamata: Colubridae) from northern Odisha with notes on morphology and natural history. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120: 189–192. Acknowledgements Uetz, P., P. Freed, and J. Hošek. 2019. The Reptile Database. <http://www.reptile- database.org>. We are thankful to Ajinkya Unawane and Prasad Gond, Pune Wallach, V., K.L. Williams, and J. Boundys. 2014. Snakes of the World. A Catalogue District Wild Animal and Snake Protection Association, of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. 437.
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